On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 04:11:01PM -0500, Dan Papasian wrote: > What do you think the port maintainer does?
Actually, one thing I've been wanting to do for awhile is build a variant install (or, more likely, a wrapper for install) which registers what it does in the dpkg database. The package name would come from an environmental variable. I'd probably want to build some helper which made it trivial to automate running make while setting this variable. To do this right, I'd need to support a "package version" environmental variable as well, and I'd need to be able to indicate when install is complete (a make wrapper would do this, for example). [Unsuccessful termination -- or detection of a stale session -- would result in rolling back the install. Successful completion would result in committing the install.] [For those that don't know: debian first places all files into the file system with special extensions, and when the unpack completes successfully, the files are renamed to their cannonical names, and the dpkg database is updated. This isn't completely atomic (be interesting to modify the kernel so that it would be, at least within a partition), but it works well under most error conditions.] -- Raul
